Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 - April 8, 1993) displayed vocal
talent as a child, but her family could not afford to pay for formal
training. Members of her church congregation raised funds for her to
attend a music school for a year, and in 1955 she became the first
African American singer to perform as a member of the Metropolitan Opera
in New York City. She was an international star by 1939 when she was scheduled to perform to an integrated audience at the DAR's Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. The DAR refuse to let her perform. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR as a result and she and her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, were successful in an effort to move the concert to the Lincoln Memorial. On Easter Sunday, 75,000 people showed up to the concert which was also broadcast to millions on radio stations around the country. This concert was an important milestone in the struggle for civil rights.

Read more about the great Marian Anderson with books from the Library's collections:

The sound of freedom : Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the concert that awakened America. by Raymond Arsenault, c. 2009.

Monday, February 24, 2014

Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler (February 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895) was an American physician. On this day she became the African-American woman to graduate from medical school and the first female African-American physician in the United States. She married Dr. Arthur Crumpler after the Civil War. Her publication of A Book of Medical Discourses in 1883 was one of the first written by an African American about medicine.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

CARTER G. WOODSON born December 19th, 1875 was one of the first blacks to lobby schools and organizations to participate in a special program to encourage the study of African American History, which began on February 1926 with Negro History Week. He started out with the intent to honor the birth months of Frederick Douglas and President Abraham Lincoln. In 1976, the federal government acknowledged the expansion of Black History Week to Black History Month.

Monday, February 10, 2014

Annual
Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in the scientific
literature. This year they are publishing two new journals:

Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.Volume 1
published in January with complimentary online access during the
journal’s first year (until January 2015). The journal explores the
application of statistical methods across all disciplines.

Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior.Volume
1 publishes in March with complimentary online access during the
journal’s first year (until March 2015).